Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol. May 13, 1861. Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started.

There's a new effort to award the Congressional Gold Medal to 200,000 African Americans who served in the Union Army during ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine ... Devine chronicles the introduction of general inhalation anesthesia and how it transformed medical ...

Eleven southern states decided to break away from the Union, and established an independent ... by the death of our oppressor." The American Civil War left a bitter legacy. In the south, burned ...